A book review by:
Monique Garcia Rosario of IV - Albert Einstein
Paolo Coelho, author of the million-copy international bestseller The Alchemist, puts forward By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept. This offers a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life. This story reveals a rare kind of love found at a young age.
Paolo Coelho has created a lyrical tale that intertwines the mysterious powers of God and magical gifts of love. The story journeys on a reunited childhood love. The story did revolve on the character of Pilar. She is the kind of person who just wants a peaceful soul. She is afraid to take risks or make decisions that could wobble her stable and simple life. Though her childhood friend already confessed to her that he loves her, she still does not want to accept the fact she, too, was falling fro her friends because of the complications that could happen. She believes that love is a trap. When it appears, we only see its light, not its shadow that is why she is afraid to take the risks of love.
When Pilar’s childhood left the small town of Soria for him to follow his dreams, she transformed into a strong and independent woman. Though her friend left their town, their communication was not lost but it was not that strong either. Pilar can only feel envious to the different stamps that her friend is sending her from the different places he has set foot on. But a day surprised her, when her friend told her that he will be giving a lecture at Madrid and wants her to come. She went to Madrid with all the risks of seeing her childhood love without knowing that her friend has grown into a handsome charismatic spiritual leader. She has learned well how to bury her feelings when she found out that her childhood friend and love was a person of God. But when they reunite, they both dropped all the fears and controls of themselves going against all the conflicts of life, love and religion. But in a small village of in the French Pyrenees, by the waters of the River Piedra , their love will outshine in the dazzling light of some of life’s biggest questions.
Though the situation is not a common picture in our everyday life, the decision-making, conflicts and risks are all part of each and everyone’s life. Certain messages are conveyed by the story. Like the story of a mountain where if you become a mountain, you will never be moved. You do not have to be afraid of what life can bring you because you already have a steady hold on everything you have. But according to Pilar, there is a fall-back of becoming a mountain; you can only look at the same picture forever because of your steady position. Unlike a river, you flow. You can go to any place you desire and you can do whatever you want to do. In the story, Pilar became a river for loving her friend. This story delivers a message about learning to break free from your comfort zone. It is about learning to break the glass of ourselves. It is not only Pilar who had always wanted to break the glass inside her because breaking the glass means freeing yourself from all the rules, from needing to find an explanation of everything and from doing only what others approve of. When she accepted the journey with her friend, she already broke the glass in her and let love inundate her soul.
I really like how the author related a unique story to the common lives of people with their common problems and conflicts. This story showed that sometimes we have to hold on tight on what our heart really tells us because sometimes the things we are afraid to take could be the only thing that is missing for us to fulfill our being. This story is filled with realization of risking things just to go after you’re the thing that you have always wanted because you wanted to be stable. This shows us that sometimes we have to cross the line and be who we really want to be. Sometimes we should do what our heart really wants us to do regardless of everything that is around us.
Monique Garcia Rosario of IV - Albert Einstein
Paolo Coelho, author of the million-copy international bestseller The Alchemist, puts forward By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept. This offers a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life. This story reveals a rare kind of love found at a young age.
Paolo Coelho has created a lyrical tale that intertwines the mysterious powers of God and magical gifts of love. The story journeys on a reunited childhood love. The story did revolve on the character of Pilar. She is the kind of person who just wants a peaceful soul. She is afraid to take risks or make decisions that could wobble her stable and simple life. Though her childhood friend already confessed to her that he loves her, she still does not want to accept the fact she, too, was falling fro her friends because of the complications that could happen. She believes that love is a trap. When it appears, we only see its light, not its shadow that is why she is afraid to take the risks of love.
When Pilar’s childhood left the small town of Soria for him to follow his dreams, she transformed into a strong and independent woman. Though her friend left their town, their communication was not lost but it was not that strong either. Pilar can only feel envious to the different stamps that her friend is sending her from the different places he has set foot on. But a day surprised her, when her friend told her that he will be giving a lecture at Madrid and wants her to come. She went to Madrid with all the risks of seeing her childhood love without knowing that her friend has grown into a handsome charismatic spiritual leader. She has learned well how to bury her feelings when she found out that her childhood friend and love was a person of God. But when they reunite, they both dropped all the fears and controls of themselves going against all the conflicts of life, love and religion. But in a small village of in the French Pyrenees, by the waters of the River Piedra , their love will outshine in the dazzling light of some of life’s biggest questions.
Though the situation is not a common picture in our everyday life, the decision-making, conflicts and risks are all part of each and everyone’s life. Certain messages are conveyed by the story. Like the story of a mountain where if you become a mountain, you will never be moved. You do not have to be afraid of what life can bring you because you already have a steady hold on everything you have. But according to Pilar, there is a fall-back of becoming a mountain; you can only look at the same picture forever because of your steady position. Unlike a river, you flow. You can go to any place you desire and you can do whatever you want to do. In the story, Pilar became a river for loving her friend. This story delivers a message about learning to break free from your comfort zone. It is about learning to break the glass of ourselves. It is not only Pilar who had always wanted to break the glass inside her because breaking the glass means freeing yourself from all the rules, from needing to find an explanation of everything and from doing only what others approve of. When she accepted the journey with her friend, she already broke the glass in her and let love inundate her soul.
I really like how the author related a unique story to the common lives of people with their common problems and conflicts. This story showed that sometimes we have to hold on tight on what our heart really tells us because sometimes the things we are afraid to take could be the only thing that is missing for us to fulfill our being. This story is filled with realization of risking things just to go after you’re the thing that you have always wanted because you wanted to be stable. This shows us that sometimes we have to cross the line and be who we really want to be. Sometimes we should do what our heart really wants us to do regardless of everything that is around us.
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